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It's just a good move all around by St.Louis and Broberg/Holloway to be honest.
I'm amazed this doesn't happen more. Mediocre teams with cap space taking chances on young players from cap strapped teams.
I do find it amusing that putting in Broberg into the playoffs would be such an absolute boon to the player. Really the same for Holloway. These are playoff contracts imo. Never would have been offered if they both were in the press box.
Even if they both fail horribly in St.Louis there's really no risk to St.Louis.. no term to hurt them.
Out of curiosity if we match can we trade them right away? Just thinking if another team wants that contract and may sweeten the draft pick pot in a pure asset management point.
I think this example highlights exactly why this doesn't happen more often and why the Oilers seem somewhat unprepared for the fact that it did.
To get a team that is as hard up to the cap as you can get to even think about walking away they had to give a player a contract at 300% of his projected value. Teams willingly take this risk all the time because who in their right mind would ever do that?